*Die Grenzboten*, 1915, No. 9 (March 3, 1915).
The article "A European Union of States?" — an open letter from a certain O. B. to Professor G. Heymans of Groningen.
This professor, together with four other persons, comprises a committee called "A European Union of States." This committee has published, among other things, a work by Heymans entitled: "To the Citizens of Warring States." In response to this, the open letter printed in *Die Grenzboten* was written.
In the open letter, among other things, the question of colonies is raised (p. 270). "Is not their 'internal autonomy' also to be desired? And are not the Indians, Negroes and Tatars also completely 'equal in rights' with the English, French and Russians?" ... (270). ... "The English colonial empire, formed, like other colonial empires, not at all 'on the basis of equality and internal autonomy' of colonial peoples, occupies about one-fifth of the earth's surface. Should England retain this colonial empire until, possibly, the English themselves die out in England itself, while Germany is not permitted to obtain from it even a single square meter, even if in the meantime her population should grow to 200 million?" (271) ...

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